To help you meet the challenges of aging, the VA offers a wide variety of benefits and services.
Veterans Benefits for Home and Long-Term-Care: Medical Foster Homes, Community Living Centers and State Veteran Homes.
Category: Memory Care
What is “Sundowning”?
If a loved one has dementia, there are likely to have changes in their behavior in the later hours of the day—which is commonly referred to as “sundowning" . . .
What are some tips for handling troubling dementia-related behaviors?
Nationwide, some 5.2 million Americans have Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia. When their care falls to a loved one, such as yourself, their actions and behaviors can become challenging, to say the least . . .
What types of dementia are there?
There are over 100 forms of dementia. By knowing the cause as early as possible as you begin your journey along the gray mile, some effects can be treated, some reversed or some even cured . . .
What are the most common options for senior care?
In time, America’s aging seniors will all require care of some form. The paramount question for them and their families will be where and how?
“We just have ‘knock down, drag out’ arguments with our dad . . . ”
The son came into our community looking into a memory care apartment for his father. He and his brother were having challenges with him, he said. “What kind of challenges?” I asked . . .
I remember an older woman . . .
She had been the caregiver for her husband, who was suffering from dementia, for quite some time . . .
